Beaeing foe pail handles



(No Model.)

E. MOHR. BEARING FOR PAIL HANDLES.

No. 565,292. Patented Aug. 4, 1896 -UNITED STATES PATENT .rrrcn.

ERNST MOHR, OF MILWVAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO THE KIECKHEFER BROTHERS COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BEARING FOR PAIL-HANDLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 565,292, dated August 4, 1896. Application filed October 5, 1895- $erial No. 564,761. (N model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: securely attached, said hearings will soon be- Be it known that I, ERNST MOHR, of Milcome loose and ultimately require to be re waukee, in the county of Milwaukee and fastened or else rendered useless. There is State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and a form of handle-bearing now in use in which useful Improvement in Bearings for Pailonly the end fingers 11 11 are employed, and Handles, of which the following is a descripthese end fingers are bent in toward the pail tion, reference being had to the accompanyand their extremities then bent up so as to ing drawings, which are apart of this specifipass between the edge of the tube 5 and the cation. body of the pail. This device is found ch- 10 Myinvention has relation to improvements jectionable owing to the inability of the in bearings for pail-handles. fingers 11, arranged as described, to with- The object is to provide an improved constand the severe lateral strain, and also owstruction for counteracting the lateral strain ing to the difficulty experienced in passing to which bearings of this character are necesthe extremities of said fingers between the r 5 sarily subjected. tube 5 and the body of the pail. 6

With the above primary object in view the My invention overcomes the difficulties invention consists of the devices and parts, or existing in the device just referred to, inastheir equivalents, as hereinafter more fully much as the central tongue 12, hooking over set forth. the turned-over edge 5 of the pail, furnishes 20 In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a secure means for counteracting the lateral an elevation of a fragment of a pail with my strain, so that there is no necessity whatever improvement applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a for bending the extremities of the end fingers transverse section of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a or tongues 11 up between the turned-over view of a metallic sheet, showing the manner edge of the pail and the body of said pail.

25 of forming the bearings. Fig. 3 of the drawings illustrates the man- Referring to the drawings, the numeral 4 nor of stamping out the bearings. Astamp or indicates a pail having its upper edge curved die is employed of such a character that at around into the usual tubular form, as indithe upper edge of each bearing as completed cated at 5, for the accommodation of the the end fingers or tongues 11 11 and the con- 0 strengthening wire or rod 6. tral tongue 12 are left, while at the lower The numeral '7 indicates the bearing,which edge a central recess 13 and the side angular is bent medially and transversely to form a recesses 14 14 are left, the metal taken from bearing-eye S, in which a handle 9 turns. said respective recesses forming the central This bearing is secured to the body of the and end tongues, respectively, of the suc- 3 5 pail by means of rivets 10 10. From the upceeding bearing. Fromthis particular strucper edge ofthis eye project end fingers or tural formation it will be seen that from a tongues 11 11 and intermediate said tongues sheet-metal blank a series of the bearings a longer central tongue 12, which at its upmay be struck without the least waste of per end is bent into hook form to firmly enmaterial.

0 gage over the rounded tubular edge 5 of lVhat I claim as my invention, and desire 0 the pail. The end lugs 0r fingers 11 are bent to secure by Letters Patent, is

at right angles beneath the rounded edge 5, 1. The combination, of a pail, a bearing sethe ends of said fingers bearing against the cured to the side thereof, said bearing probody the pail. vided below the upper edge of the pail with 5 In pails having pivoted handles, which a transverse bearing-eye, and also provided 5 handles are thrown up when it is desired to with an upwardly-extending tongue adapted lift the pail and its contents, it is a wellto hook over the edge of the pail, and a side known fact that there is, under such circumhandle having a transvere portion adapted stances, a severe lateral pull or strain on the to fit and turn in the transverse eye of the 50 handles, which, unless the bearing be very bearing, said handle adapted to be thrown 10o upwardly and outwardly laterally from the pail, when said pail is to be lifted by the handle, substantially as described.

2. The combination, of a pail having a rounded upper edge, a bearing secured to the pail and provided with a bearing-eye, with end tongues or fingers passing beneath the rounded edge of the pail, and with an intermediate tongue having a hooked upper end adapted to engage over the rounded edge IQ of the pail, and a handle turning in the bearing-eye, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ERNST MOHR. \Vitnesses:

ARTHUR ARNDT, EMIL WINTER. 

